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    December 01, 2020

    Monthly Getting Started / Web Dev Career Thread web developers

    Monthly Getting Started / Web Dev Career Thread

    Posted: 01 Dec 2020 04:11 AM PST

    Due to a growing influx of questions on this topic, it has been decided to commit a monthly thread dedicated to this topic to reduce the number of repeat posts on this topic. These types of posts will no longer be allowed in the main thread.

    Many of these questions are also addressed in the sub FAQ or may have been asked in previous monthly career threads.

    Subs dedicated to these types of questions include r/cscareerquestions/ for general and opened ended career questions and r/learnprogramming/ for early learning questions.

    A general recommendation of topics to learn to become industry ready include:

    HTML/CSS/JS Bootcamp

    Version control

    Automation

    Front End Frameworks (React/Vue/Etc)

    APIs and CRUD

    Testing (Unit and Integration)

    Common Design Patterns (free ebook)

    You will also need a portfolio of work with 4-5 personal projects you built, and a resume/CV to apply for work.

    Plan for 6-12 months of self study and project production for your portfolio before applying for work.

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    Books for people who already know CSS but want to get really good at it.

    Posted: 01 Dec 2020 04:40 AM PST

    An introduction to micro-frontends

    Posted: 01 Dec 2020 01:42 PM PST

    What I did to get GDPR Compliant

    Posted: 01 Dec 2020 12:26 PM PST

    Just a friendly reminder that the Advent of code starts today!

    Posted: 30 Nov 2020 11:47 PM PST

    Is it still worth it to use Wordpress as a back end these days? What is the state of headless CMS in 2020, and where do you see it going in the future?

    Posted: 01 Dec 2020 09:26 AM PST

    To preface, I'm talking from a developer perspective, although, I'm curious as to its efficacy from a business perspective - i.e. the potential of getting a job knowing how to work Wordpress or the potential of starting a freelance business with using Wordpress as a back end. I also want to preface this post by saying that I don't really have much experience, both personally and industry-wise. I've worked only a year in the industry, and, before that, I had only just gotten three months of programming experience from a coding bootcamp. So, my experience in total as a web developer is about a year and a couple of months, and that's including the learning process as well. If you're talking purely working on projects and not accounting for learning the basics, like what an OOP language is, for example, then it's even less than that.

    Alright, with that said, front-end engineering has always been a passion of mine since I started getting into this gig. I'm a simple man, and seeing beautiful, memorable user interfaces has always stuck out to me as something that I would love to be a part of and get really good at. In other words, I like pretty things. I was trained in coding bootcamp to be able to function as a full-stack developer before I even found out about what Wordpress was capable of (i.e. before I discovered headless development). While surfing the web for a couple of months, it seems like, when it comes to integrating a back end to a front end, a lot of people give advice on using actual back end frameworks, like Express, Django, Ruby on Rails, and Laravel, as opposed to encouraging the use of something like Wordpress.

    I have spent a considerable amount of time getting up to speed on some back end technologies, but, at the end of the day, this thought always haunts me: "If I had spent the time I used to learn back end and replaced it with learning more front end, then I would be a much better front-end engineer. I'm now just a wishy-washy in-between of front end and back end." In other words, after attempting to get good at both the front and back end, I've come to the realization that, in the short term (and possibly the long term), I want to dedicate my time to being an excellent front-end developer because that's what makes me happy. While I find back end development enticing and very interesting, front end is where my heart is. Learning all of the intricacies of the back end, such as creating proper security and whatnot, has and will take up so much of my time, which, again, I could be using to get better at the front end. And that brings me to Wordpress.

    I've taken a look at what some people have said about Wordpress - both good and bad, and, if I were to average out the opinions that I've read so far, it basically boils down to this: "Wordpress is good to use as a back end because it's maintained by people who have dedicated their lives to being back end developers. So, you can expect robust security, good speed, etc. from using Wordpress as a back end, as opposed to creating your own from scratch. However (with a capital 'H'), it's also important to take into consideration that it's going to cost money, and, depending on what your use case is, it can be a lot of money.".

    All I want is this: I want to to be able to dedicate my time towards becoming a great front-end engineer. I want to solve a lot of front-end problems and create beautiful websites. While I appreciate the back end could see myself dedicating a lot of time towards it in the future, for now, I simply want a back end that I don't have to make and that I can rely on to be robust, which is what brought me to considering using Wordpress and beginning my journey towards working in a headless workflow.

    Again, like I said in the beginning, I'm just a beginner in all of this, and I don't even know if my head is in the right place in terms of the subject matter. I'd appreciate some advice/guidance on this issue. Thank you! Also, sorry for the super-long post, but I wanted to try to get you to completely understand where I'm coming from because this is something that really means a lot to me.

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    Introducing bekk.christmas - 264 articles and podcast episodes until Christmas Eve

    Posted: 01 Dec 2020 12:53 AM PST

    imgfly.co - Looking for beta testers (owners of image heavy websites)

    Posted: 01 Dec 2020 02:26 PM PST

    Hey /r/webdev,

    in the past weeks I've been working on a new headache-free image compression and optimization service imgfly.co and now I am looking for beta testers who are willing to test out my MVP for free.

    It's unique feature is, that it optimizes your images on the fly, just by adding a url prefix to your <img src=""> attribute. You don't have to call any API or send your images to a cloud storage for async compression. All optimized images will also get cached with Google's CDN to take load off of your server and speed up the download for end users. (See the link for more info about that)

    So if you are a website owner who has a bunch of images on it, but no optimization in place, please shoot me a message or enter the signup form. I'm happy to get in touch with you. :)

    If you have any questions, please let me know.

    Cheers and stay safe! :)

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    How to build an internet radio station

    Posted: 01 Dec 2020 04:12 PM PST

    Rate my dark mode toggle animation

    Posted: 01 Dec 2020 03:43 PM PST

    I've been learning some React and web development since 2018 and I've recently implemented a dark mode toggle animation for my blog. I wanted to share it with you to get your opinions and feedback.

    Click the moon icon on the top right: https://www.celikk.me/blog.

    My website is fully open-source. Give it a star if you like the animation. If not, suggest improvements please.

    I have looked at many other examples of dark mode animations but haven't been able to find an exciting dark mode animation. Most of the time, websites use a background color transition. I had this sort of animation in my mind for a while so I sat down an invested some time into making it real.

    Do you know of any other fancy dark mode animations? Can you share a few examples?

    Thanks all! Happy coding.

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    Should I get more advanced in the backend and learn Stripe or should I start learning React?

    Posted: 01 Dec 2020 01:24 PM PST

    What is more relevant and more important for a developer to know?

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    What do you find is the best way to test on different browsers?

    Posted: 01 Dec 2020 03:02 PM PST

    I currently ran into some issues with Safari as I don't own any Mac products, so was wondering how others deal with this. Do you use something like Browserstack/Crossbrowsertesting or do you buy different devices to test on? Or perhaps use a virtual machine? It's a shame we can't get Safari on Windows to do testing... that would make it a hell of a lot easier!

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    I'm looking for a 'How-To' for how to create a Chrome Extension that modifies CSS.

    Posted: 01 Dec 2020 02:45 PM PST

    As the title states, I'm looking for a way to make my own extension that will allow me to do this. I can't (because of work) use another one, this needs special approval, so anything too large won't be acceptable.

    I looked at this, earlier but I'm not entirely sure if that's what I'm looking for.

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    Is it me, or is Google Analytics GA4 horrific?

    Posted: 01 Dec 2020 11:36 AM PST

    I'm definitely prepared to be told it is me... However, so far I've found the interface very inconsistent, the documentation out of date or simply not reflecting the interface, and tasks that should be simple are completely intractable.

    Some examples:

    • The 'Create Event' button doesn't always show on 'All events', fortunately, you can make events in the data stream section when it does disappear, but apparently these events take 24 hours to appear...
    • Modifying filter parameters for analytics routinely finds zero events, even when the event view shows events that match the criteria. That is when you can use it... a lot of the time the dialogs open outside of the browser window.
    • There is no raw event data view, if you want to confirm a hunch via a spreadsheet that avenue is blocked ...or at least on the other side of town and the map is years out of date.

    It could be the way I'm approaching it, but I can't help but think that for a reasonably small site I could have already got what I needed if I used a bit of python and some server side magic. As it is, I've spent a fruitless couple of hours bouncing around documentation pages that manage to show what I want, if only I happened to have the same buttons in the same places providing the same actions. ...and that is after I made sure I excluded GA3 results.

    My next plan is to hook in BigQuery to see if I can do it by hand, I just hope that interface is slightly more sane...

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    How does YouTube distribute money to its content creators?

    Posted: 01 Dec 2020 01:40 PM PST

    Is there a clone/boilerplate/tool one can utilize to achieve something similar for a news site?

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    Shift content of page to the right when width of page exceeds x

    Posted: 01 Dec 2020 12:47 PM PST

    It's a school project, but I can't figure it out for the life of me.

    I've currently got @media screen and (min-width: 1000px){}

    I'm trying to figure out how I can shift content to the right side of the page when the viewport(?) exceeds x pixels.

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    I am trying to add something like this to my website. What would I search for or are there any good libraries that already exist for it? Everything I search brings up articles about HTML meta tags

    Posted: 30 Nov 2020 11:02 PM PST

    Little painter gallery

    Posted: 01 Dec 2020 05:48 AM PST

    I'm a second year college student with little web development background.

    A family friend, since she knows I can code basic websites, asked me to create a website with all her paintings.

    She is 81, she doesn't know anything about tech, website or anything, she just wants a nice cool website to leave as legacy.

    I was wondering if you had any suggestions on how it could be structured and if you think it'd be appropriate to use WordPress.

    Thanks!

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    Multiplex TLS Traffic with SNI Routing, includes nginx configuration and explains HTTP/2 coalescing

    Posted: 01 Dec 2020 02:20 PM PST

    Any reason to use Passport.js over Firebase Auth? Advantages and disadvantages of both?

    Posted: 30 Nov 2020 10:27 PM PST

    Any reason to use Passport.js over Firebase Auth? Advantages and disadvantages of both?

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    Looking to implement a MERN stack web app, Android/iOS application together, wondering what the best approach is for Authentication.

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    I'm building a website on 1920x1080 15.6 in screen and that website looks awful on 1366x768 screen. (Everything looks super big) How can I fix that without using the VH unit. Because vh messes everything up when user resizes the window vertically.

    Posted: 01 Dec 2020 01:25 PM PST

    I almost feel like I'm dying because I can't solve this problem

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    css problem

    Posted: 01 Dec 2020 12:20 PM PST

    css problem

    I want to make something like this but for some reason, it doesn't work. My problem is that my left and right doesn't work and I have used z-index.

    Click the link to see the code:https://jsfiddle.net/christian_552/360bpc8m/

    I would really appreciate the help.

    https://preview.redd.it/rmgp65kivm261.png?width=838&format=png&auto=webp&s=dce660ed2fe65cf3d3d9696315c72152eb78f07e

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    Imposter Syndrome: Why Bootcamp Grads Have It

    Posted: 01 Dec 2020 08:19 AM PST

    How to test applications that mostly consist of forms and communicating with a REST API?

    Posted: 01 Dec 2020 12:00 PM PST

    In the company that I work in, we're using React and almost all pages of our app consist of either a data table or a leaflet map and Formik forms (put inside modal components).
    That is, our app relies very heavily on the REST API that it talks to. Most of the logic that happens in JavaScript is parsing/manipulating HTTP response data.

    What is the norm when it comes to testing these kinds of applications? What is the right way to go about it?
    Are there any benefits to testing them? What features/components would you test? Would you write unit tests at all (except for things like custom hooks)? Would you focus on writing more integration or e2e tests? Would you use mock data or make a testing environment instead so that you test with real data?

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    SQL or NoSQL - Movie Review App

    Posted: 01 Dec 2020 11:54 AM PST

    Hello,

    I'm looking for some advice on a web app I'm creating.

    The app is essentially another Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB. Users can rate a movie, leave a review, comment on reviews, etc.

    From what I can tell a SQL server would work fine, but just want some feedback before I start coding. Let me know if you have any questions that will help me better determine which type of server to use.

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